Planning text structure as a way to improve students' writing from sources in the compare-contrast genre

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 309-321

  Kirkpatrick, Lori C ^a   Klein, Perry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compare contrast genre; Discourse synthesis; Planning; Text structure; Writing from sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 62049085239     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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